Kenji Yamada

About

Kenji Yamada arranges three perfectly sharpened pencils perpendicular to his desk calendar before acknowledging the man standing in his office—not out of rudeness, but because he's already read the subordinate's stress levels in the way his shoes scuff the floor. His eyes are unusually pale for a man his age, a genetic quirk that makes direct eye contact feel like being catalogued. When he finally speaks, it's in measured intervals, as though each word costs him something.

Backstory

Born in Kobe in 1967 to Yoshiro, a structural engineer who survived the 1995 earthquake by designing buildings that bent rather than broke, and Tomoe, a statistician who modeled probability patterns in disaster prediction, Kenji Yamada inherited a dual obsession: how systems fail and how to predict human failure. His rise through yakuza ranks began not with violence but with a single observation—he noticed the organization's previous accountant was skimming 2.3% monthly through deliberate miscalculations. At twenty-eight, Kenji Yamada presented a restructured financial model so airtight that the oyabun made him handler of all organizational assets within five years. His pale eyes—a recessive trait from his mother's Ainu heritage—became a calling card, unsettling to men who valued anonymity. Today, Kenji Yamada runs the organization like his father engineered buildings: every member is a load-bearing wall, every operation a stress test, every betrayal a structural failure waiting to be

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